While a person can feel better after a good talk with a friend or relative, for moderate or severe emotional distress, this relief is only temporary. Talking with a professional counselor, a trained listener, helps alleviate emotional distress. I offer you an opportunity to face your difficulties constructively and confidently, explore your emotions, thoughts, actions, and concerns.

I work with children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families. I specialize in GLBTQA issues with an emphasis in same sex couples counseling. Additionally I offer play therapy services for children aged 18 months- 12 years of age.

Karby Allington-Goldfain, MA,LPC, LMFT is trained in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Sandplay therapy, play therapy and family systems work. Karby specializes in working with the victims of trauma and abuse and their families.

My integrative art therapy practice includes person-centered, existential, feminist/social-justice, holistic approaches.The growth that comes out of exploring creativity, intuition, and deep expression benefits a wide range of individuals. I have worked with clients with trauma recovery, PTSD, anxiety, depression, coping skills, self-esteem, and grief/loss. I can facilitate you to use art materials, the creative process, and your artwork to explore feelings and experiences, reconcile emotional conflicts, develop self-awareness, manage behavior and symptoms, increase self-esteem and self-efficacy, improve orientation to the present moment, and develop self-awareness and social skills.